Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-06-17
FRIDAY, JUNE nth.
GRAPHICS.


GRAPHICS.
DIR. S. L. Sage has just fnishe,
repsinting and otherwise improy
ing his residence.
Grow d Mckeehan have jus
completed fine store building a
Sublette.
Rev. w. L. Fletcher will preacl
at Troy Mills next Sunday after
noon at o'clock.
1t is claimed that Robt. Samuels
living on Big Greek, has the fines
corn in the county.
The depot for the Atchison and
Santa Fe Will be about half way
between Brashear and Hurdland
Ties were being loaded at Tolons
Tuesday, for the Trenton extern.
sion. S. NJ. Picker Of this city
furnished them.
A number of men from Western
Adair have been in town this
week, and all report the finest
crop prospects they have ever
known.
Wheat harvest has begun west
ofthe river. The grain is of ex-
cellent quality and the yield pro-
misses to be enormous.
The proprietor of the LaPlata
creamery is offering some valua-
BILE premiums to his customers as
an incentive to a crater interest
in the creamery business.
The telegraph wires are up on
the Atchison and dispatches are
now sent from Chicago to Topeka
and Kansas City over the new
line.
Ed. Ely, of klrkSyllle. and Ed.
H. A. Northcutt, of Bloomfield,
will begin a protracted meeting in
the Christian church at Memphis
Wednesday evening, June 22d.
LaPlata has school fund suf-
fciently large to employ an extra
teacher and have eight months
school next year. This speaks
we'll for LaPlata.
The mail route from Green
castle to Linderville seems to be
badly managed. If there is not
less complaint from patrons along
that route, there will be u thorough
investigation, and the negligent
parties reported.
Do not fail to hear the lectures
Saturday evening, June 25th and
Sunday June Goth, by Mary T.
Lathrsp, State President of the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Michigan. Press notices
will be given next week; also the
hours and the place of lectures.
The people down on Big Creek
resent the insinuation that any
stealing has been going on in that
Deighborhood. They claim that
the stealing was done below the
mouth of Cow Greek. The inhabit-
ants of Cow Creek must look lit
tie out.
We received a communication
this week from Kendall, Kansas,
that contained a number of good
things which we would have been
glad to place before our readers.
The communication was a reply to
one of our correspondents, and we
regret that the personal matter it
contained compelled us to deprive
our readers of what would other
wise have been an excellent letter.
The contract for removing seats
from the old school building, tax
ing down the roof and tearing out
the floors has been awarded to Van
Peckenpaugh for fifty dollars. He
also got the contract for tearing
down the walls at two dollars per
thousand, only the brick being
counted that will do to use in the
new buildings. Anthony Gooch
has been appointed inspector of
new meterial and will act as sup
erlntendent of the disposition OF
all material placed on the ground
A startling evidence of the thin
ness of the veil that separates JOY
from sorrow, happiness from woe,
was the sudden death last week Of
the wife of DR.. J. A. Wilson, Of
Sreentop. Only an hour before
ne had left her in usual health
and come to Kirksyille on the
morning train. He had scarcely
reached the business portion of
own when telegram was put il
us hand announcing her death
ne at once procured a livery team
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